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dusted with glassy scales. These give the insect a rubbed 
or worn appearance, and are, I think, evidence of disease. 
March 18th: I have now six larve left of the third brood. 
They still hybernate. Cold; N.E. Mar. 31st: the coldest, 
most wintry March I remember. Five larve left, hybernating. 
April 20th: one changed its skin; cold. April 25th: out 
of doors I eame across a larva feeding on dead-nettle. July 16th: 
the two last died (third brood),—one after spinning up,—the 
other in its fourth stage ! 
Such was my experience. I was not very successful with the 
forcing-glass. Many of the pupe I put in died just before 
emergence; probably because they were not kept moist enough. 
But I easily made out the insects to be typical, except in two 
instances, where they were bi-lobed. The apparatus consisted of 
a flowerpot-saucer full of coarse, gritty sand. A layer of moss 
was next placed on the top. Then came the pupe on the moss. 
A twig was stuck through for the moths to climb up and develop 
their wings. Lastly, a bell-glass, fitting just inside the saucer- 
rim, concentrated the heat and moisture. ‘The sand should 
always he kept wet by the addition of warm water when necessary. 
It will be seen that all my “‘ varieties” pale before the extra- 
ordinary form bred by Mr. Laddiman, and figured in the 
‘Entomologist’ for January last. Still, my experiments were, 
to me, most interesting. An exceptionally severe winter was 
dead against them; but, if they save entomologists the trouble 
of undertaking this kind of work, in the hope of obtaining 
striking varieties, they will, on that score, have served some 
useful purpose. 
Chester, January 4, 1892. 
NOTES ON THE SYNONYMY OF NOCTUID MOTHS. 
By Artuur G. Buruer, F.L.S., F.Z.8., &c. 
(Continued from p. 14.) 
Tarache monilifera. 
3 Acontia monilifera, Walker, Lep. Het. xi. p. 798, n. 42 
1857). 
2 ee Walker, I. c., p. 799, n. 48 (1857). 
3 A. unio, Felder, Reise der Nov. Lep. iv. pl. cviil. fig. 82. 
Natal. Coll. B. M. 
The ‘A. unio” of Felder is a slightly whiter form of the 
species, answering to the 1’. albicollis of the allied Kuropean 
T. lucida. 
Tarache abdominalis. 
3 Tarache abdominalis, Grote (see Check List, p. 37, n. 1024). 
United States. Type in Coll. B. M. 
